Build a Job Application Form - Build a Job Application Form

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Good day folks,
I’m having a difficult time with step#19:
“You should use the :checked pseudo-class on radio buttons to change the text color of the associated label when the option is selected.”

I’ve tried 2 different browsers and several different methods of inputting this code, but I cannot get this to work.

What am I doing wrong?

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <link rel="styles" href="styles.css">
    <title>Job Application Form</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Big Daddy Application Form</h1>
    <div class="container">
        <form>
            <label for="name">Full-name</label>
            <input type="text" id="name" placeholder="Enter your name">
            <label for="email">E-mail</label>
            <input type="email" id="email" placeholder="bigdaddy@daddy.daddy">
            <label for="position">Favorite Position</label>
            <select id="position">
                <option default>Choose your favorite</position>
                <option>Top</option>
                <option>Bottom</option>
                <option>Flex</option>
            </select>

            <fieldset class="radio-group">
                <legend>Availability</legend>
                <label for="fullt">Full-time</label>
                <input type="radio" name="availability" id="fullt">
                <label for="partt">Part-time</label>
                <input type="radio" name="availability" id="partt">
            </fieldset>
            <label for="message">What makes us compatible?</label>
            <textarea id="message">
               </textarea>
            <button type="submit" name="submit-btn" id="submit-btn">I'm Ready Daddy</button>
        </form>    
    </div>
</body>
</html>
/* file: styles.css */
body {
  max-width:600px;
  font-family:arial,sans-serif;
  margin:auto;
  padding:20px;
}

.container {
  width:80%;
  margin:auto;
}

h1 {
  text-align:center;
  padding:20px;
}

input:focus, textarea:focus {
  outline:none;
  border-color:navyblue;
  border:4px solid pink;
}

input:invalid, select:invalid, textarea:invalid {
  border-color:red;
}

input:valid, select:valid, textarea:valid {
  border-color:green;
}

button:hover {
  background-color:pink;
}

.radio-group input {
  display:block;
}
.radio-group input[type="radio"]:checked {
  border-color:navy;
  background-color:blue;
  box-shadow:3px 3px 8px grey;
}

input:first-of-type {
  border-radius:5px;
}

.radio-group input[type="radio"]:checked + label {
  color:purple;
  font-weight: bold;
}

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge Information:

Build a Job Application Form - Build a Job Application Form

GitHub Link: freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/lab-job-application-form/66faac4139dbbd5dd632c860.md at main · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · GitHub

Welcome to the forum @ExperimentIX!

Does your label element come immediately after the checked radio element?

Next-sibling combinator - CSS | MDN

Happy coding!

That’s it!

Next sibling… as-in AFTER the input.

Thank you so much!